A man in his 20s has been killed in the city’s latest instance of gun violence.
Police received reports of gunfire around 8:10 p.m. Monday in the Don Mills Rd.-Sheppard Ave. E. area, said Gary Long, of Toronto Police — some saying they heard as many as 10 shots.
Searching the area, officers came across an injured man near Parkway Forest Dr. and Forest Manor Dr. He was pronounced at the scene.
On Tuesday afternoon, police identified the victim as Paul “Boulos” Rizk, 27, of Toronto.
An autopsy is scheduled on Tuesday.
The Parkway Forest Community Centre was closed Tuesday and surrounded by police tape as the investigation continued.
The entrance to the child care centre where the shooting took place still had a pool of blood in front of the door and at least eight shots into a bench a the wall were visible and surrounded by yellow police markers.
Sissy lives across the parking lot from the centre and heard the shots Monday night.
She said she thought the sounds were coming from a nearby construction site until she saw the police presence arrive.
“I was too afraid to come out then,” she said, while walking her dog and looking at the crime scene.
Update: a couple of other calls for sounds of gunshots 7-10 sounds heard we are on scene, further to come. ^gl— Toronto Police OPS (@TPSOperations) September 25, 2018
She says at the time of the shooting, the community centre would have been quite busy.
“It’s terrifying. Anyone could have been killed,” she said.
This is the city’s 80th murder of the year.
With three months to go, the city is on pace to top its record-high of 89 homicides set in 1991.
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